Join Us in France Travel Podcast Toulouse is a great place to come stay for a few days because not only is it a lovely city, but once you're here, there are a lot of great places you can visit as day trips.  Most of those day trips around Toulouse require a car, and such is the case with the one we're discussing today: Sorèze and Revel: Great Day Trips from Toulouse (or Carcassonne)  What You Will Learn About in this Episode 2’ 03 This Join Us in France episode 156 aboutSorèze and Revel: Great Day Trips from Toulouse (or Carcassonne) 4’ Annie and Elyse argue about how to say the name "Revel" + the lake of Saint-Ferréol. 6’ The Lauragais area with rolling hills. A wheat-growing area, villages on the top of hills. 7’22 The first place you get to on our drive is Saint-Felix de Lauragais 8’38 Revel is a small town of around 10,000 people, which makes it a small city by French standards 9’50 Furniture-making in the Lauragais: they make good quality copies of classic French furniture styles 10’40 Biscuiteries and cookie makers in the Lauragais 11’20 One of the main reasons to visit Revel is to visit the Saturday Market. Revel is a “bastide” with an old covered market with a belfry at its center 13’44 Weighing stones at the Revel Market 16’ There is a great bakery in Revel, they make lovely “croustade” with apples and lemon. They call it “pastel” there 18’30 The Montagne Noire in the Lauragais 19’20 The village of Sorèze, a town founded in the 700s and famous for its “Abbaye-école de Sorèze”. Hughe Auffrey is a French singer who attended this school 25’20 Dom Robert the Benedictine Monk who became a tapestry artist, the museum in Sorèze specializes in tapestries because of him 27’ When is a good time to visit Sorèze to enjoy the artist colony side of things? There are craft fairs in the summer, try to 27’30 There is a small glass museum in Sorèze because there is a history of glass-makers who lived in the woods long ago 30’ The Saint-Ferréol Lake: Annie hates it, Elyse likes it, we’ll let you be the judge and let us know in the comments! This lake was created by Pierre-Paul Riquet to help bring water to the Canal du Midi to help it enough water in the canal year-round. 35’15 Why Annie hates the Saint-Ferréol Lake 39’ There is another, more wild lake nearby also: Lac d’en Brunet (or Lac de Belleserre) 43’30 Aeroscopia Museum in Toulouse Got Feedback or Extra Information? Write a comment below or call the voice mail box! 1-801-816-1015   To learn about Join Us in France Tours, visit Addicted to France If you enjoy the show, subscribe to the Join Us in France Newsletter Click here for show notes and photos for this episode. Click here to review the show on iTunes. Join Us in France Book Group on Goodreads Click here to leave us a voice mail question or comment. Send email feedback: annie@joinusinfrance.com Follow the show on Facebook THANK YOU for listening to the show!